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This is relevant to EA because one of GiveWell's top charities, New Incentives, promotes cash payments for routine vaccinations for children. There are large differences between the two programs in context and population, but the new paper corroborates the general point that incentives increase vaccine uptake.
For more, see IDInsight's randomized evaluation of New Incentives, as well as GiveWell's recent post on Research Strategy: Vaccines.
(This paper was also shared on Marginal Revolution today.)
Nice.
By the way how does this compare to the results of "Monetary incentives increase COVID-19 vaccinations" (Campos-Mercade et al)? Seems like the results here involved a similar sized incentive, but had larger effects?
That’s interesting, I’m not sure what accounts for the differences (this is not my research area). If anything I would expect demand for the booster to be more price sensitive than for the initial dose.